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Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Etching and aquatint, signed, numbered 58/70 41 x 47 cm Nephew of the historian G M Trevelyan, Julian Trevelyan was educated at Bedales and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. After moving to Paris, Trevelyan studied engraving at Stanley William Hayter’s school, working alongside artists such as Max Ernst, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso. He married the potter Ursula Darwin in 1934, and in 1935 they moved to Hammersmith, buying Durham Wharf beside the River Thames which was Trevelyan’s studio – and home – for the rest of his life. His wartime service was – like so many artists – as a camoufleur. A Royal Engineer from 1940-43, he served in North Africa and Palestine, forcing the German Afrika Korps to use resources against a dummy army whilst real tanks were disguised as more harmless equipment. In the desert, nothing could be hidden - but it could be disguised. Following the dissolution of his marriage in 1950, he married the painter Mary Fedden. Teaching at Chelsea School of Art, Trevelyan eventually became head of the Etching Department and his pupils included David Hockney and Peter Ackroyd. Condition: Some toning to paper. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
View of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Watercolour on paper 13.5 x 23cm A charming view of Corpus Christi College and assorted denizens of Cambridge. The college is notable as the only one founded by Cambridge townspeople; it was established in 1352 by the Guild of Corpus Christi and the Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the sixth-oldest college in Cambridge. With around 250 undergraduates and 200 postgraduates, it also has the second smallest student body of the traditional colleges of the University, after Peterhouse. The College has traditionally been one of the more academically successful colleges in the University of Cambridge. It also ranks among the wealthiest Cambridge colleges in terms of fixed assets, being exceptionally rich in silver. Unsigned; labelled 'Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge' in ink, lower left. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Clare College and Bridge, Cambridge
Albumen print of a photograph, circa 1850 Mounted to board and inscribed 'Clare Coll + Bridge Cambridge'. Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refounded in 1338 as Clare Hall after an endowment from Elizabeth de Clare, and took on its current name in 1856. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on The Backs, overlooking the River Cam. Condition: generally very good, slight toning to sky. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Trinity Bridge, Cambridge
Albumen print of a photograph, circa 1850 Mounted to board and inscribed 'Trinity Bridge Cambridge'. Trinity Bridge is a stone built tripled-arched road bridge across the River Cam. It was built from Portland stone in 1765 to the designs of James Essex to replace an earlier bridge built in 1651, and is a Grade I listed building. Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, and was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. Trinity is one of the oldest and largest colleges in Cambridge, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture within Cambridge, with its Great Court reputed to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Condition: generally very good. If you’d like to know more, please email info@manningfineart.co.uk or call us on 07929 749056. -
Mabel Oliver Rae
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Etching, circa 1920 20 x 27cm Signed lower left. Mabel Oliver Rae was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, and trained at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1888 and 1890. Rae is known for her skilled etchings of various rural scenes and townscapes, particularly those of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. She signed works with the pseudonym 'M.Oliver Rae', a ruse to conceal the fact she was a female artist, so as not to reduce her chances with commercial dealers and agents. Condition: Generally very good, slight discolouration to margins - which will not be visible under mount. -
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733), after David Loggan (1634-1692)
The Costumes of the University of Cambridge
Engraving, 14 x 36 cm Early 18th century This engraving by van der Aa (based on a prior design by David Loggan) illustrates the various forms of academic dress worn by members of the University of Cambridge. Pieter van der Aa of Leiden was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He is noted for the many engravings he produced after David Loggan's series of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and costumes. Condition: Generally very good; slight age toning, and spotting to margins. -
Mabel Oliver Rae
Chapel Tower of St John's College, Cambridge
Etching, circa 1920 19 x 7 cm Hand-signed in pencil lower left, and titled in pencil lower right. Signed "MR" in plate. Mabel Oliver Rae was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, and trained at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1888 and 1890. Rae is known for her skilled etchings of various rural scenes and townscapes, particularly those of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. She signed works with the pseudonym 'M.Oliver Rae', a ruse to conceal the fact she was a female artist, so as not to reduce her chances with commercial dealers and agents. Condition: Generally very good. -
Mabel Oliver Rae
Chapel Court, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Etching, circa 1920 12 x 17 cm Hand-signed in pencil lower left, and titled in pencil lower right. Signed "MR" in plate. Mabel Oliver Rae was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, and trained at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1888 and 1890. Rae is known for her skilled etchings of various rural scenes and townscapes, particularly those of the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. She signed works with the pseudonym 'M.Oliver Rae', a ruse to conceal the fact she was a female artist, so as not to reduce her chances with commercial dealers and agents. Condition: Generally very good. -
Charles March Gere R.A. R.W.S. (1869 - 1957) King's College from the Backs Watercolour 36 x 69 cm Monogrammed lower left. An atmospheric watercolour of one of Cambridge's most exalted sights: King's College chapel from the Backs, together with Clare College. Charles March Gere R.A. R.W.S. was an English painter, illustrator of books, and stained glass and embroidery designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. -
Sarah Orange (19th century)
The Kitchen Bridge, St John's College, Cambridge (c. 1830)
Watercolour 14 x 20 cm Provenance: Bene't Gallery, Cambridge. This 19th century watercolour depicts the Kitchen Bridge at John's. A scholar in gown and mortarboard stands alone in the bridge's centre, gazing meditatively into the glassy water below. -
E. T. Talbot
St John's College, Cambridge, showing the First Court and Chapel
Watercolour 30 x 25 cm A richly-coloured watercolour painting of the First Court of St John's. First Court was built in 1511-20 to the south of the old Hospital of St John the Evangelist, and was designed to contain living quarters, chapel, library, hall, and kitchens. The version of First Court which Talbot paints looks markedly different to the college today - the chapel on the far left of the picture was demolished after the new chapel was completed in 1869. -
David Loggan (1634-1692) University of Cambridge Frontispiece and Dedication for Cantabrigia Illustrata (1690) Engraving 38 x 55 cm Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College (Winchester and New College share William of Wykeham as their founder) whilst the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' includes one of Eton College (which shares its founder, Henry VIII, with King’s College). Bird’s-eye views from this era required a particular talent as an architectural perspectivist; it was not until 1783 that it became possible for artists to ascend via hot air balloons and view the scenes they were depicting from above. Loggan thus had to rely on his imagination in conceiving the views. Loggan’s views constitute the first accurate depictions of the two Universities, in many ways unchanged today. Whilst the Oxford engravings were produced in reasonable numbers and ran to a second edition by Henry Overton (on thicker paper and with a plate number in Roman numerals in the bottom right-hand corner), those of Cambridge were printed in much smaller numbers. The Dutchman Pieter van der Aa published some miniature versions of the engravings for James Beverell’s guidebook to the UK, 'Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne' (c. 1708). The contemporary artist Andrew Ingamells (b.1956) has produced a highly-acclaimed series of etchings which bring Loggan’s original vision up to date. -
Ray Turrefield (active late 20th century)
Hitcham Building, Pembroke College, Cambridge (1978)
Print 18 x 25 cm Signed and dated lower right. A print of Pembroke College, Cambridge's Hitcham Building. Built in 1659, the Hitcham Building marks the first instance in Pembroke of the Classical Style, which was soon to find full expression in Wren’s Chapel. The building was intended for the Master’s use and was originally connected to the former Master’s Lodge. Both the poet Thomas Gray and the Prime Minister William Pitt lived in the building during their times at Pembroke. Condition: very good. -
Walter Hoyle (1922-2000)
St Catharine's College, Cambridge (1956-66)
Linocut 59 x 39 cm Signed lower right; inscribed and numbered 35/75 in pencil. Hoyle trained at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art. At the latter he was strongly influenced by Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest linocut printers. Bawden had been commissioned by the 1951 Festival of Britain to produce a mural for the South Bank, and chose Hoyle to assist on account of his great talent. Hoyle moved to Great Bardfield in Essex, becoming a part of the Great Bardfield group of artists; diverse in style, they created figurative work, in stark contrast to the abstract art of the St Ives artists at the opposite end of the country. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art from 1951-60, the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1960-64, and the Cambridge School of Art from 1964-1985, during which time he launched Cambridge Print Editions. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, Kettle’s Yard and the Fry Art Gallery. Condition: very good. -
John Stanton Ward CBE (1917 - 2007)
St John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour 30 x 47 cm John Stanton Ward CBE was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator. This view of St John's highlights the dreamlike quality of the college and its city. Ward depicts Cambridge on a winter afternoon; the trees are bare, and the afternoon sun sets gently over the city's lawns and high spires. Condition: very good.
